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ISIS now controls a supply route from Syria's largest city to Iraq's capital
Business Insider ^ | 5/18 | Jeremy Bender

Posted on 05/18/2015 9:14:16 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue

Despite what the Pentagon may say, the "degrade and defeat" strategy against the Islamic State terror group isn't going well. Instead, the militants gained control of the provincial capital of Ramadi after months of contesting it with Iraqi Security Forces and Sunni tribes.

And that means the Islamic State (aka ISIS, ISIL, or Daesh) now has a superhighway or sorts across Syria and Iraq.

Ramadi is the capital of Anbar, Iraq's largest region. The province is predominantly Sunni and abuts onto Baghdad, which is only a little more than fifty miles away. Now that Ramadi has fallen, ISIS will have much more of a clear shot running supplies and fighters straight to a front against the Iraqi capital.

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TOPICS: Egypt; Israel; News/Current Events; Syria; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: anbar; egypt; iran; iraq; israel; ramadi; syria; waronterror
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If we know this, isn't it time to carpet bomb that highway with B-52s?
1 posted on 05/18/2015 9:14:16 AM PDT by TangledUpInBlue
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To: TangledUpInBlue

We’re only bombing asprin factories. Wouldn’t want to interrupt the caliphate.


2 posted on 05/18/2015 9:16:37 AM PDT by Paulie
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As I recall, the Iranian militias assisted the Iraqi forces in taking back Fallujah. As far as I know, the Iraqi government still controls fallujah. I’m thinking that is ISIS’s next goal. Once Fallujah falls, they will be really close to Bagdad and all of the Anbar province will effectively be in ISIS’s hands.


3 posted on 05/18/2015 9:19:50 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: TangledUpInBlue

I don’t understand how ISIS can run their Toyota trucks on highways all over Iraq/Syria. They should be sitting ducks for air power.


4 posted on 05/18/2015 9:20:50 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: TangledUpInBlue

What the hell is going on with our military? Obama tells the media last week to stop reporting ISIS as an organized military operation, as they are just individual fighters on the run. What are these bozos doing?


5 posted on 05/18/2015 9:22:07 AM PDT by Rennes Templar (NSA: The only government agency that really listens.)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

If Assad falls, ISIS has a corridor to the Med. Why THE HECK are we fighting Assad?


6 posted on 05/18/2015 9:24:33 AM PDT by grania
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To: TangledUpInBlue

And remember, just a short time ago, that @ss McCain pushing for American power to overthrow Assad and turn Syria on its head?

Is this the result he was seeking?


7 posted on 05/18/2015 9:30:49 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Why? What difference does it make who controls which highway over there? It’s Sunni vs Shia for over 1000 years.

Which team are we on?


8 posted on 05/18/2015 9:32:03 AM PDT by Lorianne (fed pork, bailouts, gone taxmoney)
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“I don’t understand how ISIS can run their Toyota trucks on highways all over Iraq/Syria. They should be sitting ducks for air power.”

You left off the /s.


9 posted on 05/18/2015 9:33:02 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

Bagdad had been sacked and re-sacked dozens of times over many centuries by various factions of Islam.


10 posted on 05/18/2015 9:33:43 AM PDT by Lorianne (fed pork, bailouts, gone taxmoney)
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To: TangledUpInBlue

Why is everyone so upset. Obama told us this was just the JV team. Pffft... nothing to worry about.


11 posted on 05/18/2015 9:34:10 AM PDT by Obadiah (This is Bravo-6, we have Zips in the wire! I repeat, Zips in the wire.)
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Why THE HECK are we fighting Assad?

Obama doesn't like secular governments, he wants radical Islamic governments. What do you think was behind his actions in Egypt and Libya?

12 posted on 05/18/2015 9:35:33 AM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: grania

“If Assad falls, ISIS has a corridor to the Med. Why THE HECK are we fighting Assad?”

You answered your question immediately before asking it.

The leftists’ god Hussein, all Democrats and about half of “Republicans” are actively supporting our enemies.

The Fraud and his administration are NOT incompetent.


13 posted on 05/18/2015 9:37:03 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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To: Lorianne

ISIS does not have the strength to take Bagdad right now. However, a year from now? Who knows. In the meantime, they could make life in Bagdad completely insane with day after day of foreign religious fanatics willing to die for Allah blowing themselves up, killing hundreds if not thousands of people all while ISIS prepares to mount the final push from fallujah and ramadi. If Bagdad were to ever fall, it would be over, except for the mop up operations. I don’t know if that’s possible, but they could certainly paralyze the whole country.


14 posted on 05/18/2015 9:37:41 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

So?

Why is this our problem? Bagdad had been sacked and re-sacked dozens of times over centuries. Sunni, Shia, other sects ... who ever came along with enough brute force.

This is the history of the region. Why should it all of a sudden be different now?


15 posted on 05/18/2015 9:39:54 AM PDT by Lorianne (fed pork, bailouts, gone taxmoney)
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To: treetopsandroofs

Pray tell which ones are our enemies? Sunnis or Shias?

Which team do we play for?


16 posted on 05/18/2015 9:40:43 AM PDT by Lorianne (fed pork, bailouts, gone taxmoney)
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To: Lorianne

One last thing, the real power behind ISIS are not the religious fanatics, they are idiot pawns. The true power behind the throne so to speak are the former Fadayeen and before that former Baathists of Sadaam. Their goals is to take back Iraq, not set up a caliphate. They want to install the next Sadaam and go back to their positions of power within the Baathist administration.

This is the same battle we were fighting in 2005 - 2007.


17 posted on 05/18/2015 9:40:50 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: Old Teufel Hunden

Yes and so?
What is our objective here?
Do we want to rule Iraq ourselves?
If not, which team do we want ruling there?

Why is one faction better than the other and for whom?


18 posted on 05/18/2015 9:42:54 AM PDT by Lorianne (fed pork, bailouts, gone taxmoney)
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"Why is this our problem?"

We won the war and Obama lost the peace. The best way to defeat an enemy is to make them our allay. We were well on the way to that when Bush left office. That is all down the drain. If we desert them, someone will be in there. It might be someone that you don't want there (Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia). It will spiral out of control to something that none of us can fathom. We are already having a nuclear arms race shape up in the region. Do we want to pile on top of it? If we don't stop this insanity, who knows where it leads to. The shame of it is it could have all been so easily avoided.
19 posted on 05/18/2015 9:44:49 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: Lorianne

Whoever the Fraud supports is our enemy.

Pretty simple, once you finally understand the POSOTUS cannot be trusted about ANYTHING.

People here who pick and choose which of his headlines to believe seem to most often give him the benefit of the doubt whenever possible.


20 posted on 05/18/2015 9:46:19 AM PDT by treetopsandroofs (Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
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